Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Withe

Withe (?; 277) , noun

[Old English withe. {not transcribed}. See Withy, n.]

1.
A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.
2.
A band consisting of a twig twisted.
3.
(Nautical) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured; a wythe. — R. H. Dana, Jr
4.
(Architecture) A partition between flues in a chimney.

Withe , transitive verb

To bind or fasten with withes.
You shall see him withed, and haltered, and staked, and baited to death. — Bp. Hall